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1. Add MS 49999

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Title:
Book of Hours ('The De Brailes Hours') (formerly known as 'The Dyson Perrins Hours')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, known as the 'De Brailes Hours' after the Oxford illuminator William de Brailes, who left two signatures in the manuscript (ff. 43r, 47r, see Provenance). The manuscript is one of the earliest known Books of Hours to survive. Its liturgical content is close to the use of Sarum as ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1240
Extent:

Parchment codex

2. Add MS 49999-50005

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Title:
DYSON PERRINS MANUSCRIPTS
Scope & Content:
The following seven MSS., 49999-50005, together with Additional MS. 49622 and Egerton MS. 3763, are from the collection of Charles William Dyson Perrins, of Davenham, Malvern, Worcestershire (d. 1958). Dyson Perrins bequeathed Add. MS. 49622 and Oriental MS. 12208 to the British Museum. The othe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1235-1499]
Extent:
7 items

3. Add MS 50000

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Title:
Psalter (the 'Oscott Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Psalter in Latin, with a metrical paraphrase of the Psalms in Anglo-Norman French. A leaf excised from this Psalter is now Add. MS 54215 (see Turner, Rediscovered Miniatures (1969)). The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, including the following saints: Milburga (23 February), Oswald (2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1265-1270
Extent:

Parchment codex.

4. Add MS 50001

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen', or 'The Hours of Elyzabeth ye quene')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar of Sarum use, but not containing all the feasts described as peculiar to Sarum in W. G. Henderson, The York Missal, 2, Surtees Society, 60 (1874), pp. 271-2. Entries in red include: Richard of Chichester (3 April); Dunstan (19 May); Augustine of Canterbury (26 May...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1415
Extent:

1 volume

5. Add MS 50002

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Mirandola Hours')
Scope & Content:
This lavishly illuminated Book of Hours was probably produced for Galeotto Pico della Mirandola, Prince of Mirandola and Count of Concordia (d. 1499) and his wife, Bianca d'Este (as evidenced by their arms, painted into the border decoration on f. 13r), probably in Northern Italy in the decade b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1490-1499
Extent:

A parchment codex.

6. Add MS 50004

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Title:
Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents: A Book of Hours from Spain, consisting of: ff. 1r-63v: Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome; ff. 65r-69v: Memorials of Saints Christopher, Bernadino of Siena (canonised 1450), Anthony of Padua and Francis. ff. 71r-87r: Prayers: ff. 71r-73v: 'Obsecro te domina sancta maria' (Leroqu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

7. Add MS 50005

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Title:
Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Dutch. The text in the manuscript was completed by three hands: - Hand 1, of the early fifteenth century, who completed the bulk of the manuscript (ff. 8-82v, 95-96v, 103r-104v, 110r-111v, 115r-116v, 121r-122v, 125r-126v, 132r-132v, 134r, 145r-159v). - Hand 2, a slightly later...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-1420
Extent:
1 item